Bug 122628 – sci-mathematics/yacas/yacas-1.0.61 has redundant lynx dependency

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Cláudio Valente 2006-02-12 15:56:44 UTC]

* lynx is indicated as a dependency but I just built it and ran it with lynx not installed (packages.provided) with no problems, am I missing something
* perl is used during the build but is not listed as a dependency at all (I think during the documentation build, which I think should be optional via use doc)

Thank you in advanced


Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15.1 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.15.1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga doc dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php plotutils png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vim vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-12 16:01:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> * perl is used during the build but is not listed as a dependency at all (I
> think during the documentation build, which I think should be optional via use
> doc)

perl is present on every Gentoo system, no need to depend on it.

[Comment 2 Cláudio Valente 2006-02-14 11:13:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > * perl is used during the build but is not listed as a dependency at all (I
> > think during the documentation build, which I think should be optional via use
> > doc)
> 
> perl is present on every Gentoo system, no need to depend on it.
> 
Ok!

What about the lynx dependency?

I've been running without it (and built it) with no problems.

And why lynx in particular? why not virtual/textbrowser?

What's so special about lynx?
What it is used for?

[Comment 3 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2006-04-09 05:05:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> What's so special about lynx?
> What it is used for?
> 

Hi Cl

[Comment 4 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2006-04-09 05:05:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> What's so special about lynx?
> What it is used for?
> 

Hi Cláudio,

Lynx is used as yacas' default help browser, even though it
should also work with other browsers, but I haven't tried it.
Just type ?? at the command prompt and you will see.

I'll close this bug for now and hope your questions were
answered.

Best,
Markus

[Comment 5 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2006-04-09 05:11:41 UTC]

Sorry, I meant to close this as "INVALID".

Markus

[Comment 6 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2006-04-09 05:12:23 UTC]

Close this as INVALID.